Digital Logo [was: Re: PDP 11/03 vs. PDP 11/03-L]

Paul Koning wrote: It was even designed in the same year. When Ned Batchelder prepared a PostScript version of the Digital logo in 1987, he also investigated its history: --quote-- The logo was designed in 1957 by Elliot Hendrickson, who was then working as an independent designer. He was contracted by DEC to do a brochure, and DEC wanted a logo to accompany it. The logo up to then had been the letters DEC in blocks the shape of the plug-in cards that DEC had been producing. Elliot re-worked the logo, incorporating letters which were hand-drawn for the purpose by Arthur Hover(?). The logo has been maintained since then in conventional technology, ie, film masters. There was at least one reworking of the logo at some point. The masters I received had a number of interesting features. The boxes were not all the same width, and there seemed to be no logic to which boxes were wider. The 'g' was the narrowest, and the 'i' and 'l' were second widest. Also, the two 'i's were not exactly the same shape. On ten-inch masters, (one box to an 8=x11 sheet), the boxes were not rectangles, but were very slightly tapered in wierd ways. I assume that the tapering is the result of too many reproductions, but the difference in widths may have been deliberate at some time. Elliot reports that when he drew it, all boxes were the same width. I have retained the different widths in my version, since the experts I had at hand did not seem to think I should make them uniform. --unquote-- -- Paul